Registered Nurse -ICU

NMC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NMC is seeking a qualified Registered Nurse to provide comprehensive patient care. The role involves coordinating with physicians and allied staff, assessing patient needs, and implementing care plans.

You will monitor vital signs, administer medications, and assist in perioperative and ICU settings, ensuring patient safety and accurate documentation. Applicants should hold a valid RN license and demonstrate strong English communication skills, with flexibility to work across departments as

Qualifications

• Must hold an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse.
• Maintain professional licensure per regulatory requirements.
• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public, and offer emotional support to patients and families.
• Assess needs and implement and monitor medical plans within the interprofessional team.
• Record vital signs and monitor for abnormalities, ensuring patient safety.
• Administer medications and monitor for adverse reactions.
• Prepare patients for exams and procedures and assist in invasive or non-invasive procedures.
• Support ICU procedures and post-operative care, including documentation.

Skills

Nursing licensure

English communication

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse license

Job description

Job description

The post holder will always work within the scope of practice, putting the health, wellbeing and safety of their patient first as they assess, plan, implement and evaluate their needs.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
• Understand and analyse the assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.
• Record vital signs, recognize, addressand all abnormalities.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratoryexaminations.
• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirementsand scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient’s admission, transfer and discharge.
• Assist in all Procedures related to ICU like, Inserting all invasive lines, CRRT, Haemodialysis, LP, All types of draining, Tracheostomy insertion, cardiac output, IABP, Thermoregulation,
• Provides comprehensive pre-operative and post-operative nursing care to all surgical patients
• Predominant role in preparation, administration and documentation of medication.
• Performs a wide range of nursing procedures with attention to accuracy, patient safety and comfort, including those requiring strict aseptic technique
• Assists with transfer of patients within the health care facilities and serves as transport nurse for patients during ambulance transport.
• Demonstrates competency in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and participates as a member of Code Blue hospital wide.
• Maintains and updates all relevant patient documentation / medical records as per hospital policy and procedure.
• Follows the reporting mechanisms / chain of command in the nursing services department. All patient care issues shall be correctly and promptly reported.
• Demonstrates an economical approach to the utilization of equipment’s and supplies while assisting the head nurse to maintain an appropriate ward stock.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Have an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience these mandates.
• Manage their own professional re-licensure.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.
• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written)

DESIRABLE: The post holder should have:

• Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
• Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.

Be able to communicate effectively in Arabic